An Easy Way to Make your Voice Commands Smarter in Home Assistant

[@waynenocton]

Crazy good, I wish I was at half of your level with this stuff.

[@chrisdixon5241]

Great video, brilliant idea and pretty low effort to put in place for huge benefit! One small issue I can see in a multi-person home, is if 2 people happen to use assist in different rooms at the same time then there would be a clash evaluating the templates and it won't work as expected. I think the odds are low enough that it probably doesn't matter, but something to keep in mind

[@SlackerLabs]

Yep. That is a possibility. The other issue is technically the assist in the progress entity is deprecated. Sonwe will need to adjust the sensor. But yea. I think it's a cool addition.

[@metsa18]

@@SlackerLabs One solution to this could be using the trigger object in the automation to check which satellite triggered it. This would also eliminate the need for the extra helper. When setting the variables in the automation you should be able to use area_id: {{ trigger.device_id | area_id }} area_name: {{ trigger.device_id | area_name }} I don't have any voice hardware so can't confirm if this works... Hope this helps! 😊

[@bcookdc2]

Great video and excited for the upcoming ones. I’ve been reviewing options on moving away from Google as my voice assistant and to HA Assist with a combo of local LLM and some occasional cloud LLM. I’ve been going down the View Assist road, but won’t be doing that for all my rooms, so this is going to be great.

[@bobbyb98]

This is great! My biggest question is how did you get Google Home Mini to not play the obnoxious Chime before it speaks? The speakers are great for quality but suck for the chime before they do anything.

[@SlackerLabs]

Umm. Unfortunately I don't have a secret for that. It wasn't on purpose. But I had tested it right before doing it on video. And since it was still on it didn't chirp.

[@LivingSmallLivingMobile1]

Great video. Do you have a video where you explain setting up the Google speakers for use with HA

[@SlackerLabs]

I dont. But that is a good idea.

[@dominoxan]

Hi, what is Home Assistant Voice PE from Nabu Casa ?; )

[@daveforrester61]

Taking things to the next level yet again! Thanks. What was that Home Assistant Voice 0902fd device by Nabu Casa I spotted in your ESPHome device list? Is that what I think it is?

[@SlackerLabs]

umm. Technically I am not allowed to speak of it it yet so I cannot confirm or deny that there is a high likelihood that it's definitely what you think it is.

[@PersonXes]

😂​

[@haddonist]

Home Assistant channel has an upcoming livestream on 19th December (depending on timezone) that is "Product Launch - Voice: Chapter 8", where they'll be showing it off.

[@Asholaki]

Great Video! Is there a way to have a follow up request without having to say the wake word again? Similar to how the google home mini waits after a reply for some seconds?

[@brettam]

Hopefully with the coming Nabu Casa voice hardware we'll get a working media_player component for things like the Atom Echo(it looks like they've got code for it w/ the new hardware and hopefully the upstream component will get updated). Then you won't need the hack to respond on another media_player device. The media_player component exist in ESPHome but requires the use of the Arduino framework, so it doesn't work with the voice assistant components that need the esp-idf framework.

[@MarkGhali]

Well I am excited for the next video!

[@Sparky_D]

Getting Jarvis on the Google Home Mini.... 🤔

[@diedrichg]

I was definitely surprised to see that as well!

[@thmo_]

Weird, I thought Area Awareness was added natively into HA in 2023.12, Chapter 5 of Voice stuff? Why‘d you had to add it this way?

[@sekritskworl-sekrit_studios]

Defining the Rooms tell HA which room items are for context. A house (really any building) are just boxes within boxes. Even if HA had cameras with A.I. and recognized a bed within a room... that bed could be placed in a hallway, kitchen, or garage... the platform doesn't know the purpose of spaces until we define them.

[@SlackerLabs]

Are you saying that the ability to walk into the living room, and say "hey jarvis, turn off the lights" without having to say turn off the living room lights was or add anything additional entities already existed? I will have to go back and look. Oh yep. For lights it did exist. So my demo wasn't as cool as it could have been. But to answer your question. The reason I had to do it this way is was something specific that I didn't talk about in this video. But I did show.

[@thmo_]

@ oh so it only works for lights? Then I think your solution is still nice to have! Looking forward to what you‘re gonna do in that upcoming video 😁 I didn‘t catch it ^^

[@TheShadowpheonix]

I just wish I could get the M5 Stack Atom Echo that I bought to work with HA properly. HA refuses to accept audio input from it, and audio output is extremely quiet. :(

[@ArmChairPlum]

Hmm, given that we can use Bluetooth to track device numbers, I wonder if there are some cheap Bluetooth sniffers that you could use to track your phone in the home. Since most of us carry one around with us and could be used to make it independent. Although this would be easier.

[@jerseyman99]

The Bermuda integration does this.

[@PatrickBulteel]

Nice, but I would have created it as a function and put it in custom_templates directory. These get loaded by HA on bootup.

[@SlackerLabs]

Good point! I should totally do that.

[@sekritskworl-sekrit_studios]

But, how do we get SSL certificate for Home Assistant so we can even use Voice Assist?

[@haddonist]

Easy way is to get a Nabu Casa subscription. If you want to DIY there are various ways using TailScale, Cloudflare, etc

[@DaveSomething]

nice, I am growing tired of gewgle.

[@SlackerLabs]

I think an end of that tiredness is coming soon.